Mom

Hello, players
Here we are, this time with a complete demo!
MOM is a short 15 minutes game! This is a RPG Maker MV short event game made by Artgame for the 2016 Halloween event. I really noticed this game only recently and this was because of the peculiar graphics, anyway let's start from the beginning.

Unsurprisingly for a game made for a Halloween event, the story is pretty spooky! A little baby is for some reason threatened by Satan, but to defend him from the creepy creatures of the night... there is MOM! MOM is... well his mom, and even if ghosts and evil spirits are trying to harm him she can help because (and we learn this from the beginning) also MOM is a ghost! A good ghost, that is!


Oh do not worry little baby, MOM will be back... somehow!

The gameplay of MOM is pretty basic: it's five minutes before midnight and the evil will manifest, throwing one of his evil minions once in a while. What will MOM do? Seek and destroy, of course! In these five minutes (that's a lot, trust me, half time would be enough) MOM has to look for the items related to the bad guys. So look for items, face the bad guy, pick the right item from inventory aaaaand... MOM FIST! To insta-kill the bad guy! That's it.
Oh yes, battles are a joke, and it's hard to call them battles at all, not that this is bad at all but yhis could have been more interesting with the introduction of some minigame, puzzle or just a quicktime event. The game is all here, linear, simple and with a single ending.

The visuals is instead where the game shine: the story is good and emotional (despite the presence of typos but I can figure out that the dev is not a native english speaker of course), but the visuals are even better. From the cute main screen to the various enemies this game shows a lot of quality and style. The setting is creepy and eerie and the atmosphere is really powerful.


Get ready to enter a world of pain!

Final Verdict
MOM is a very short and simple game, maybe even too much for an event entry. Despite that it would have benefitted from a little more polishing and attention to the dialogues, it's not a bad game, has no bugs, issues or problems. It's ok, but just ok in my opinion, a pity since the graphics are really well made and made this little and very simple scenario stand out. Still I did not regret playing this game... if you have 15 minutes feel free to try it!